The Horoscope Lives Forever

by Elisabeth Grace

I am a reporter with a unique beat. I cover the astonishing
synchronicity of headline news and planetary patterns. In my more than
seven years of reporting, it’s become clear that we can find a lot
of planetary action in the horoscope of someone who is suddenly hot in
the press. That’s not surprising.

What is surprising is that it doesn’t seem to
matter whether that “someone” is dead or alive. The transits
and solar arcs we’d expect to see in the horoscope of a living
person making news are also present in the horoscope of someone who has
transitioned. The horoscope lives forever!

Let’s start by examining the horoscope of a living
person who suddenly made headlines.

How could this howling error happen? Why would it happen to Terry
Gilliam? Was it a totally random, freak occurrence? What if an
investigative reporter looked a little deeper? If one did, she’d
find that how this freaky thing could happen is screamingly obvious in
Gilliam’s horoscope.

Gilliam’s Sun is at 29°49’
Scorpio. On the day his obituary was published, transiting Saturn was at
29°24’ Scorpio, almost exactly conjunct his Sun. Transiting Saturn
conjunct the Sun is a heavy, few-times-in-a-lifetime transit, suggesting
potentials including (but not limited to) a streamlined focus on ambition
(on the upside) or a squeeze on one’s vitality (on the potential
downside).

Gilliam’s Midheaven (MC) is at 8°19’ Gemini. The MC
refers to career and public status. Transiting Neptune was at 8°11’
Pisces, in an almost exact square to that MC. Transiting Neptune tends to
dissolve whatever it touches, often shrouding it in a rose-colored fog.
Things may not be as they seem. The resulting bedazzlement and/or
bewilderment may be experienced as what astrologer Noel Tyl describes as
an “ego wipe-out.”

So, we see in Gilliam’s horoscope two huge patterns
that do not happen every day, suggesting potential limitation and
illusion. Gilliam is declared dead, but — wait, things are not as they
seem — since he is most assuredly alive!

What else would Gilliam’s transits suggest? Neptune may
also be experienced as a need for a creative or spiritual vision.
Transiting Neptune has been within a 5° orb of squaring Gilliam’s
MC since February 2013, and will be within 5° of opposing his Ascendant
until May 2019. In May 2016, it was announced that one of his cherished
creative ambitionshad finally received another round of
funding, reflecting the potential for abundance that solar arc Jupiter
square natal Venus (exact on April 15) suggests. The film is scheduled to
begin shooting in the fall. What’s the project? The Man Who
Killed Don Quixote!2Cue “The Impossible
Dream,” please — the ultimate Neptune endeavor.

Now, let’s look at the timing of headline-grabbing events
in the horoscopes of people who are clearly, dearly departed.

"Woodrow Wilson, Stud Muffin"

Yes, really, that was Maureen Dowd’s catchy headline,
topping her Sunday column in The New York Times on December 7,
2013.3

Dowd had spent an evening with Pulitzer Prize–winning author A.
Scott Berg, discussing Wilson, his biography about the 28th
president of the United States. The book was generating quite a buzz, but
of greatest interest to Dowd that night were juicy tidbits about Woodrow
Wilson’s love life. Why in the world would his love life be
attracting attention now?

Woodrow Wilson was born on December 29,
1856. His Sun is at 7°47’ Capricorn, opposed by Saturn at 11°
Cancer. If this were a living person’s horoscope, we’d expect
major events in life development to occur between 2012 and 2014, as
transiting Uranus and Pluto made hard aspects to the Sun and Saturn. We
see the potential for an upset to the status quo and a dramatic change of
perspective, ideally evolving into emancipation (Uranus) and empowerment
(Pluto). At the very least, we might expect a prominent buzz.

Woodrow Wilson (being dead) can’t take action to manifest
this potential, but the horoscope has a life of its own. The potential
was realized in perfect synchronicity with Wilson’s horoscope when
A. Scott Berg’s sizzling biography was published. It was such a hot
property that Leonardo DiCaprio optioned it, intending to portray
President Wilson in a future film. Wilson’s horoscope is still
working, even if Wilson isn’t!

As for being called “stud muffin” in a serious news
publication, note that Wilson has Venus and Mars exactly conjunct in
Aquarius, both of which square Uranus. We could expect an electric,
focused sex appeal and unconventional relationships. His Moon–Pluto
square suggests intense emotional engagement. On December 7, 2013,
transiting Saturn was at 17°52’ Scorpio, less than one degree past
an exact square to Wilson’s Venus–Mars conjunction. His “stud
muffin” qualities were being taken with much gravitas, as Dowd
notes (quoting Berg):

Wilson wrote thousands of letters to his first
wife, several hundred to his second. These are the most passionate love
letters I’ve ever read. They’re not pornographic, so you
don’t have to run out to look for that, but they are incredibly
romantic, often sexual, very emotional, deeply, deeply emotional letters.
At a certain point, they get sickening. They’re just too much.

But why Leonardo DiCaprio? What was his attraction to Woodrow
Wilson? Would the synastry we’d expect to see in two living people
be found between the horoscope of a living person and a dead person?
Yes!

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Moon is at 15° Libra, right on
Wilson’s Ascendant. This is a compelling emotional and personal
connection. DiCaprio’s Scorpio Sun and Venus trine Wilson’s
17° Cancer MC and sextile Wilson’s Mercury at 18° Capricorn. We can
see how Leonardo DiCaprio might feel that he could successfully express
himself (Sun–Venus) through Wilson’s identity (Ascendant), status
(MC), and mindset (Mercury).

Numerous other synastric
connections suggest the force of their “mutual attraction,”
including, but not limited to:

DiCaprio’s Libra Ascendant opposing Wilson’s
Jupiter

DiCaprio’s Cancer MC square Wilson’s Jupiter

DiCaprio’s Libra Moon trine Wilson’s Venus–Mars
conjunction

DiCaprio’s Scorpio Sun–Venus in Scorpio trine
Wilson’s Neptune and MC

DiCaprio’s Sun–Venus square Wilson’s Venus–Mars
conjunction

DiCaprio’s Libra Pluto square Wilson’s Capricorn
Sun

DiCaprio’s Scorpio Mars sextile Wilson’s Capricorn
Sun

Fascinating, isn’t it?

We’d also quickly see that transiting Pluto and Uranus
would be supercharging angles and planets in both horoscopes in 2015–18,
as they hit 15°–18° Capricorn and Aries, respectively.

In 2013, I wrote that if the Woodrow Wilson biopic
starring Leonardo DiCaprio was released in 2015, it would likely generate
fame and potential good fortune for them both.4 As it turned out, the
Wilson biopic was not released in 2015, but The Revenant was.
DiCaprio won a truckload of awards for his starring role in late 2015, as
well as his first Oscar® in 2016. Score!

What about Woodrow Wilson? True to the potential of his
horoscope, his status was also dramatically upset. Transiting Uranus
squaring Mercury and the MC was the provocateur, suggesting potential for
a shocking revelation about Wilson’s mindset. The first square to
the MC from Uranus was in April 2015; the first to Mercury was in May. A
few weeks later, TheWashington Post ran a piece
reminding its readers that, soon after Wilson became president in March
1913, he:

… promptly authorized members of his cabinet to
reverse [a] long-standing policy of racial integration in the federal
civil service … [re-segregating] facilities such as restrooms and
cafeterias in their buildings. In some federal offices, screens were set
up to separate white and black workers.5

Shocking, indeed. A man revered in the late 20th century as a
Nobel Peace Prize–winning progressive was also a fierce
segregationist.

The second hits to Wilson’s MC and Mercury from Uranus were
in early October and November. On November 23, 2015, The New York
Times reported that, at Princeton University (Wilson’s alma
mater), “the heralded alum was now being recast as an intolerant
one.”6 A campaign that had started in September demanded that the
university publicly acknowledge Wilson’s “racist
legacy” and rename the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs and campus buildings bearing his name. By November,
there were walk-outs, sit-ins, and other disruptive actions on
campus.

In April 2016, weeks after the final hit by Uranus to
Wilson’s Mercury and MC, Princeton officials voted to preserve the
status quo. But the sullying of Wilson’s reputation by the awful
truth had already been done. Astrology is amazing!

Postscript: In the course of writing this article, I
looked at Wilson’s solar arcs. If I had looked at them back in
2013, when considering Wilson’s prospects for 2015, I would have
zeroed in on a solar arc from Pluto to his natal Saturn, exact in August
2015. This suggests that a particularly grueling effort would be required
against a threat of loss. Wilson received the prominence his transits
indicated, and the solar arc suggests how much would likely be at
stake!

Frida Kahlo’s Big Close-Up

In early May 2015, New York Times reporter Guy Trebay
was surprised that Ms. Kahlo was “having a moment”:

In a welcome though unexpected
convergence, an array of new books and exhibitions about Kahlo have
suddenly appeared this spring, adding insight and
depth to our understanding of a woman who would seem among the most
overexposed artistic figures of all time.7

Frida Kahlo died in 1954 when she was 47 years old. Patterns in
her horoscope in 2015 clearly reflected the increasing buzz her work had
been generating around the world. The words in italics (mine) in the
above quote from Trebay’s article give us a clue to the transits
triggering the attention.

If an event is unexpected and
sudden, offering insight and depth, we can
reasonably expect transits, solar arcs, and/or progressions involving
Uranus and Pluto. In a two-second glance at Kahlo’s horoscope,
we’re immediately drawn to her natal Neptune and Sun in Cancer
opposing Uranus and Mars in Capricorn. We see the potential for an
electrifying visionary — a creature like no other — alluring and fiercely
revolutionary. The planets in that intense configuration were receiving
exact, hard transits from Uranus and Pluto for three years, beginning in
February 2013, with transiting Pluto at 10° Capricorn conjunct her natal
Uranus.

In Kahlo’s horoscope, Uranus is in the 5th house, ruling
the 7th. A Pluto transit to her Uranus suggests prominence or empowered
perspective in matters related to unconventional relationships (7th
house), as well as creativity and self-expression, including sexual
expression (5th house). In October 2012, as transiting Pluto came to
within 3° of its first exact conjunction with natal Uranus, Kahlo was one
of the first honorees inducted into Chicago’s Legacy Walk, an
outdoor public display celebrating the lives of influential LGBT people.
On the plaque commemorating the bisexual Mexican artist, we see these
words, “Defying convention, she flaunted numerous extramarital
affairs.“8 Yes … and with a Pluto transit through her 5th, it
would be more power to her.

The creativity Kahlo expressed in her partnership with her
husband, fellow artist Diego Rivera, also gained prominence at that time
in a dual retrospective entitled “Frida & Diego: Passion,
Politics, and Painting.” It opened at the Art Gallery of Ontario in
Toronto, Canada in October 2012 and traveled to the High Museum of Art in
Atlanta in February 2013.9

Throughout 2013, transiting Pluto and Uranus would continue to
make contact with Kahlo’s natal Uranus and Neptune, sowing seeds of
genius and inspiration the world would see manifested in 2014 and 2015,
when Pluto and Uranus supercharged her Sun and Mars. In April 2014,
Tree of Hope, a musical about her life, premiered in West
Hollywood. In October, the four-act opera Frida y Diego
premiered in Helsinki, Finland.

Also in 2014, transiting Saturn at 23° Scorpio made contact with
all four angles of her horoscope, actually stationing retrograde on her
IC at that degree in March. When a living person experiences transiting
Saturn at the IC, we can expect a need to focus on core foundation,
family, and other domestic concerns. In Kahlo’s horoscope, with
all of her angles at 23° fixed, we expect to see her life
getting Saturn’s streamlining focus and potential for advance
from all angles — literally: in her relationship to the public
(Descendant), in her personal presentation (Ascendant), and in her
career/public status (MC), as well as in family/domestic concerns
(IC).

In fact, intimate details of Kahlo’s
domestic life were the focus of one biographer and several museum
curators, whose efforts went public in 2015. In March, Frida Kahlo:
The Gisele Freund Photographs was published, and the book was lauded
in Trebay’s NYT article for its “most
intimateinsights into her life and working process …

The opening of “Art-Garden-Life” in May 2015
coincided with the following energizing patterns in Kahlo’s
horoscope:

During the first half of May, transiting Sun and Mars in Taurus
successively hit all angles in her horoscope.

Transiting Jupiter in Leo made the third hit to all angles in
July, after stationing retrograde at 22° Leo in December 2014, just
minutes away from her 23° Leo Ascendant.

Transiting Uranus at 18° Aries would station retrograde in
July and square her natal Jupiter at 20° Capricorn.

It all added up to a summer of prominence, expansion, and empowerment
for Frida Kahlo. This was surprising to the reporter who marveled at her
commercial success,10 but not to the astrologer who looked at her
horoscope. What further surprises and fresh starts will Kahlo
“experience” when she “gets it from all angles”
from transiting Uranus at 23° Taurus on her MC in 2024 and
2025?

Hans Christian Andersen: Frozen Hot!

Andersen died in 1875. He is the author of “The Snow
Queen,” the classic fairy tale that inspired Frozen, the
highest-grossing animated film of all time, as Variety reported
on March 30, 2014.11 Frozen was released by Walt Disney Studios
in November 2013. What was going on in Andersen’s horoscope to
suggest so much fame and fortune?

The short answer is a transiting
Uranus–Pluto square. Yea, verily, in headline after headline after
headline, a deceased person making news is experiencing a heavy outer
planet making a hard aspect to a faster-moving personal planet or angle,
just as we’d expect in a living human being.
In Andersen’s case, we immediately see the Sun and Mercury in
Aries opposing Saturn in Libra (inner wheel). Each of these planets was
transited by Uranus and Pluto simultaneously: in May 2013, when Uranus
and Pluto were exactly square at 11° Aries–Capricorn; in April 2014, when
the two were at 13° Aries–Capricorn; and in December 2014, when they were
at 12° Aries–Capricorn.

When Variety announced Frozen’s
record-breaking revenue, transiting Jupiter was at 11° Cancer, adding its
expansiveness to the Uranus–Pluto square (outer wheel). Sprinkling more
pixie dust was transiting Neptune, just past an exact square to natal
Jupiter, ruler of Andersen’s Sagittarius Ascendant. While
Neptune–Jupiter transits on the downside suggest potential scandal and
challenging legal concerns, on the upside we could imagine other Neptune
arenas — such as music, fairy tales, and movie magic — expanded beyond
one’s wildest dreams.

In March 2015, plans for a sequel to Frozen were announced;
plans for a stage version of the original animated film were announced in
early 2014.12 The stage play is expected to open in 2017. Might this
coincide with the Jupiter transit to Andersen’s natal Uranus
(ruling the 2nd house) and his MC? Frozen 2 is expected to
arrive in movie theaters in 2018, perhaps just in time for Hans Christian
Andersen’s exuberant Jupiter return and solar arc Moon conjunct
Jupiter.

Harper Lee’s Fresh Start

The reclusive author of the classic novel
To Kill a Mockingbird passed away in February 2016. Her
Ascendant at 25° Libra was opposed (within 1°) by transiting Uranus in
August 2016, and the opposition will be exact in May 2017. Uranus will
station retrograde and hover at 25° Aries for months between November
2017 and February 2018. Transits to the Ascendant from Uranus often
suggest a fresh start. Guess what’s planned for Lee around that
time? A new stage production of To Kill a Mockingbird to be
written by Aaron Sorkin. The play has never had a Broadway run.
It’s scheduled to open during the 2017–18 season.13 A fresh start,
indeed — and potentially quite a splash when it premieres, as a look at
other transits in Lee’s horoscope suggests.

Transiting Jupiter will cross her Ascendant in October 2017. How nice
for a potential public debut! Starting in January 2018, transiting
Jupiter in Scorpio will then energize and expand her natal t-square
involving Mars–Jupiter conjunct in Aquarius, opposed by Neptune in Leo,
all square to the Moon and Saturn in Scorpio. Mars conjunct Jupiter in
Aquarius and opposing Neptune suggests no small amount of energy and
charisma for championing a faith-based and/or humanistic cause. The
Moon–Saturn conjunction in Scorpio suggests a need to be appreciated for
depth and substance, mastery and control.

Transiting Jupiter will station at 23° Scorpio in March 2018, exactly
conjunct Harper Lee’s natal Saturn and square her natal Jupiter. It
will conjoin her Moon at 19° Scorpio, ruler of her 10th house, in May —
just as transiting Uranus squares her MC at 28° Cancer. Tony nominations,
anyone?

Lucy, Loved at Last

On April 7, 2015, it was reported that possibly the most unflattering
statue ever erected of anyone was to be taken down — with apologies from
the artist who created it.14 Back in August 2009, the freakishly ugly
life-sized bronze purporting to depict Lucille Ball was installed in a
park in her hometown of Celoron, New York. Dramatic patterns in
Ball’s horoscope were at play.

In 2009, transiting Pluto conjoined her 1° Capricorn
Ascendant three times (inner wheel), suggesting a ruthless tear-down
and/or transformation in how she is perceived. Transiting Uranus in
Pisces was opposing her natal Venus, ruler of her MC and the 5th house of
creative self-expression. Uranus–Venus transits can suggest
unconventional attraction and aesthetics. There’s the potential for
“freaky.” Expanding on that potential was transiting Jupiter
in Aquarius opposing Ball’s 13° Leo Sun.

So, why did it take six years to uninstall “Scary Lucy”?
What was the world waiting for? Only this: In the last week of March
2015, as transiting Jupiter retrograde conjoined Ball’s 13° Leo
Sun, “outrage over the statue exploded seemingly out of
nowhere.” (outer wheel.) Jupiter stationed direct at 12° Leo on
April 8. Plans to remove the statue were announced that week, with
Jupiter applying to its third conjunction with Ball’s Sun (exact on
April 29). On May 11, at transiting Jupiter’s third square to
herMars at 14° Taurus, ruler of her 4th house (home),
local officials formally voted to have the ugly statue sent away.15 Lucy
was loved at last! Coincidence?

Not a coincidence at all. Horoscopes live forever, as these
convincing cases suggest. The patterns in the horoscope, when triggered
by planetary transits, solar arcs, and progressions, are reflected in
life events even after that life has ended.

This, then, leads to a deeper question: Why does the horoscope live
forever? And what are we really studying when we study astrology?

Food for thought and debate at the next conference, I’m sure.
See you there!

Author:Elisabeth Grace earned her B.A. in
Philosophy from Wellesley College and is an award-winning promo
writer/producer (http://www.egracespace.com). She is ISAR CAP–certified
and a highest-honors graduate of Noel Tyl's masters course for
professional astrologers. Freelance assignments at WNBC and CNBC inspired
her daily forecast, covering the astonishing synchronicity of headlines
and planetary patterns. Will never stop talking about astrology! She has
lectured in the United States and Japan, and would be delighted to talk
to you. To schedule a personal consultation, book a lecture, and/or
subscribe to the forecast, visit http://www.graceastrology.com; e-mail: eg@graceastrology.com; telephone:
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